Problems with old system

Students should read through the list of possible problems and explain in their own words the problems they are experiencing with their current system ...

• If you hand write the data you cannot produce more then one copy of it.
• If you make a mistake whilst writing out the data, you have to start again.
• Also if you make a mistake you could cross it out, but it makes your work look untidy.
• You cannot save your work, so if you loose the data you have hand written you have to re-do it.
• It takes up a lot of space keeping sheets in a filing cabinet.
• It is difficult to keep sheets in order and search through them to get information.
• You have to draw your own graphs of results and interpret data yourself, which takes time.
• If you loose a sheet of work then you have no backup copy to use.
• Paper records are easy to damage and get worn out over time.
• You can’t add new columns and delete columns easily
• You need a calculator to do the sums
• You cant update records by changing numbers so formulas do calculations
• You can’t get graphs to change as records change
• You can’t link results between different sheets of data.

When students have completed this section, they should then talk about their users ...